Toshiba’s Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic
Components Inc., a committed technology leader, announces four new large
capacity nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), including the first
self-encrypting models in the company’s enterprise capacity-optimized
storage lineup. The 3.5-inch 7,200 rpm MG Series includes both SATA
models — the MG03ACA400 and the MG03ACA400Y — and SAS models —
MG03SCA400 and the MG03SCP400 — and all deliver 4TB1 of
storage, the company’s largest capacity to date.

Toshiba's 4TB MG Series for the Enterprise (Photo: Business Wire)

As businesses work to keep up with the explosion of unstructured data,
large capacity HDDs are crucial for IT systems designed to organize and
access the growing pools of valuable information. The massive capacity
of the MG Series is perfectly suited for RAID storage and arrays, tiered
virtual infrastructures for public and private cloud deployments,
archives, and disk-based backup and data protection solutions. The
robust 24x7 design and massive capacity provide the cost-effectiveness
required for business-critical servers and external storage systems,
including NAS, SAN and tiered storage deployments for large enterprises,
as well as for direct-attached storage in general purpose servers and
SMB-oriented systems and applications.

“Organizations of all sizes continue to be challenged by the exponential
growth of big data and information they need to protect and maintain,”
said Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing, Toshiba Storage Products
Business. “Toshiba’s new 4TB drives provide the high-capacity and
enterprise-class reliability required to keep up with rapid data growth.”

Utilizing Toshiba’s latest five-platter mechanical design, the new 4TB
models provide a 100 percent increase in capacity over Toshiba’s prior
business-critical models while improving the power-profile and
operational efficiency in the industry-standard 3.5-inch form factor.
The new 4TB models also deliver an 18 percent increase in sustained
transfer rates for both the SATA and SAS interface versions. In
addition, the MG Series includes power management features designed to
reduce power consumption during off-peak activity periods, helping to
reduce operating costs and environmental impact.

The optional SATA self-encrypting (SED) models support fast and secure
cryptographic- erase using both the latest T13 SANITIZE crypto-scramble
protocol and the older T13 ATA Security Erase command protocol. The
optional SAS SED models support both the T10 SANITIZE crypto-erase
feature and the Trusted Computing Group Enterprise Security
Sub-Classification protocols. These proven, industry-standard security
technologies support “nearly instantaneous” cryptographic-erase of user
data to enable fast and secure device retirement or re-deployment. Using
SEDs can eliminate the need for lengthy data overwrite cycles and reduce
IT department expenses associated with secure data destruction and
device sanitization.

Sample shipments of the MG 4TB series models will start in December,
with volume shipments scheduled to begin early next year.

Toshiba Corporation and its affiliates offer one-of-a-kind global
storage solutions, offering hard disk drives (HDDs), solid state drives
(SSDs) and NAND flash memories — technologies that drive a wide range of
consumer electronics, computer and automotive applications, as well as
enterprise solutions for the global marketplace. Toshiba is a leader in
the development, design and manufacture of mobile, consumer and
enterprise hard disk drives and solid state drives. In North America,
the Storage Products Business Unit of Toshiba America Electronic
Components, Inc. markets high-quality storage peripherals to original
equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, value-added
resellers, value-added dealers, systems integrators and distributors
worldwide. Inherent in the Toshiba storage family are the high-quality
engineering and manufacturing capabilities that have established Toshiba
products as innovation leaders worldwide. For more information, visit www.toshibastorage.com.

Toshiba
America Electronic Components Inc. is an independent operating
company owned by Toshiba America Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba
Corporation, Japan’s largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world’s
third largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2011 Worldwide
Semiconductor Revenue, March 2012). Toshiba Corporation was founded in
1875 and today has over 490 subsidiaries and affiliates, with 203,000
employees worldwide. Visit Toshiba's website at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm.

1. One Terabyte (1 TB) means 1012= 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
using powers of 10. A computer operating system, however, reports
storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1 TB = 240
= 1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity.
Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files)
will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and
operating system, such as Microsoft operating system and/or
pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted
capacity may vary.

*Energy consumption efficiency is calculated in accordance with the “Law
concerning the Rational Use of Energy” (Energy Conservation Law) in
Japan, which was enacted in 1979 to promote energy conservation and
reduce energy consumption. The energy saving law was most recently
revised in 2011 with specific measurement criteria reflected in the
specification indicated.

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